30 Minutes Devoted to Thought Brings About Education

November 29, 2017

I am currently very slowly reading a book called "The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had" By: Susan Wise Bauer.  And it said something that really struck me. So I wanted to share.

"The first task of self-education is not the reading of Plato, but the finding of thirty minutes in which you can devote yourself to thought, rather than to activity."

The author even recommends scheduling a set time for it 4 days a week. Maybe doing exactly that will help me make progress with the stack of books that I have on my nightstand. What book are you reading right now to keep yourself learning and growing?

And Nature Study Comes to Me

November 26, 2017

I got to spend Thanksgiving visiting my family and sister in Arizona this year and while we were enjoying the lovely warm fall weather and letting the kids play at the park nature study found me.  I discovered a beautiful moth with tiny golden crescents on its wings laying on one of the picnic tables.  Being out of town we certainly didn't have our nature notebooks or anything with which to record the discovery.  But I did take the time to point the creature out to the children and appreciate delicate thing we call life.  Today I am grateful for beautiful bugs.